n; and
the sketch gives fair warrant for the conclusion, that, in point of manly
simplicity and integrity, the traits and the trials of those elder
worthies who helped to settle our republican institutions have not been
overdrawn.

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[1] As I set down these reminiscences I observe the
following paragraph in a Boston daily paper of November
27, 1872:--

"NOVEMBER SNOW. Fifty-two years ago to-day there were
twenty-eight inches of snow on a level in the vicinity
of Portsmouth, N. H."

[2] The late Mr. George Wood, of Washington, a native of our
town, in some highly interesting _Memorabilia_, formerly
published, says: "The aristocracy were not on High
Street, as now, but on Water Street, and more at the
South than the North end, as the old houses give
evidence to this day. The Johnsons, Jacksons,
Davenports, Coffins, Greenleafs, Bartletts, Pierces,
Hoopers, Tappans, Todds, Carters, Lunts, Marquands, and
others of wealth, were on Water Street or near it. There
were their grand houses and fine gardens, and it was not
till they thought of retiring from business that they
removed to the West-end or up-town, as gradually as they
always do in all places."

[3] After resigning his office of judge, which he had held
for only a few years, but administered with
extraordinary ability and integrity, Judge Jackson went
abroad for relaxation, and a letter from a gentleman in
London to a friend on this side the water says,--"Two of
your townsmen, Judge Jackson and Jacob Perkins, now fill
the public eye of England, and are the subjects of
public and private conversation."

[4] "The meteor flag of England," etc. Campbell. "Ye
mariners of England."

[5] These brooms are made by peeling strips from the stump,
which are fastened below.

CHAPTER II.

I should scarcely deem it expedient to enter at much detail into the
eccentricities of our good townspeople, though it seems to me that in our
own street I could recall enough to make a pretty sizable volume.

But one feature of the times deserves a passing notice. I refer to the
inconsiderable number of insane persons, compared with the sad increase
of that unfortunate class in our own day, and the manner in which they
were treated. Of course, a more widely extended population